The Entangled Bank Project

Science that spans wide geographical areas or attempts to integrate across and study
feedbacks between the multiple levels of biological organization from individual
organisms to ecosystems is vital to developing the kind
of understanding of the natural world necessary to deal with the pressures
it faces in the 21st Century.

Such synthetic studies that
re-purpose existing information are particularly problematic in ecology as;

data is inherently heterogenous and widely distributed among organisations;

archives are few, and where exist have limited structure and metadata;

data and metadata are often poorly exposed;

analytical tools are isolated by data format and discipline.

The Entangled Bank Project developed two systems that remove friction from the data cycle, enhancing ecological data mobilisation.